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“It’s hot enough to fry an egg” seems to be a universal expression of how damn hot it is. Most of the time, though, it’s not really that hot. An egg must be heated to 158 °F (70 °C) before it properly fries. But the Associated Press reports that this child in China’s Shandong province was able to cook the egg, at least to his own satisfaction, along with a few raw shrimp.

During sustained heat waves, the temperature can get much higher near the ground. And the kid (first spotted by China Real Time) was smart to cook over a metal manhole cover, which conducts heat much more effectively than pavement.

If word catches on about this road roasting, Chinese officials could face the same problem as authorities in Death Valley, California, where so many people tried to fry eggs during a recent heat wave that a warning had to be issued: “The Death Valley [National Park] maintenance crew has been busy cleaning up eggs cracked directly on the sidewalk, including egg cartons and shells strewn across the parking lot… Don’t crack eggs on the sidewalks.”